Sentences with phrase «whose education philanthropy»

Last spring, in a much - quoted speech, Bill Gates, whose education philanthropy is the subject of another story in this issue, told the National Governors Association that America's high schools were «obsolete.»

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The lowdown: Documentary portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish - American head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose philanthropy gave a boost to African - American education and culture in the first half of the 20th century.

She is an acclaimed historian of education whose many published works include An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachineducation whose many published works include An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of TeachinEducation Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1983).

Later, he devotes a chapter to economists Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger, whose work on value - added teacher evaluation has powerfully influenced Bill Gates's education philanthropy.